The High 10 builders captured 43.2% of recent single-family house closings (i.e., gross sales) in 2022, the best proportion on report based mostly on information launched by BUILDER Journal; this can be a 9 proportion level improve from 2021, the most important year-over-year improve since NAHB’s monitoring started in 1989. This share represents 276,941 closings out of the 640,500 new single-family house gross sales reported by the U.S. Census in 2022. Nonetheless, these closings solely symbolize 27.1% of single-family completions, a broader measure of house constructing that features (not-for-sale) house building.
Information for the previous three a long time reveals a continued upward development within the high 10 builder share by closings. In 1989, the highest 10 builders captured 8.7% of closings. By the yr 2000, the share was 18.7%; and by 2018, 31.5%, reaching above 30% for the primary time. After edging down in each 2019 and 2020, the share has damaged the record-high in consecutive years, reaching 34.4% in 2021 and 43.2% in 2022. As for the highest 10 builder share by completions, the share was at 5.6% in 1989, rose steadily to a pre-Nice Recession peak of 17.9% in 2006, and after a quick decline, it has continued the same regular climb to 27.1% in 2022 (Determine 1). The hole between these strains in 2022 is because of a relative achieve in not-for-sale building, which incorporates customized and constructed for lease models.
9 of the highest 10 builders remained the identical from 2021 to 2022: the one change was LGI Properties, which was changed by Toll Brothers. There was one change as regards to rating; Meritage Properties Corp and Taylor Morrison switched ranks, with the previous rising to the fifth place whereas the latter is now seventh. D.R. Horton stays the highest builder for 2022, capturing 12.9% of the market with 82,930 closings (Determine 2). That is the second consecutive yr that D.R. Horton has achieved a market share better than 10% and the 21st straight yr that D.R. Horton has occupied the highest spot. Lennar is ranked second with 10.7% in market share, which is the primary time that the corporate has reached double-digit market share, and PulteGroup is third with 4.5%. That is the third yr that the High Three builders (D.R. Horton, Lennar, and PulteGroup) have a mixed market share of over 20% (2018: 20.4%, 2021: 22.0%. 2022: 28.1%).
BUILDER Journal additionally launched Native Leaders information on the highest 10 builders within the high 50 largest new-home markets within the U.S. (rating decided by the variety of single-family permits), which NAHB will analyze in one other submit later this week.
